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Re: Around the League News: Week 21 (3/6 - 3/12)

Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2023 1:34 am
by Flagrant Fowl
Superbone wrote:
Tue Mar 07, 2023 11:55 pm
Flagrant Fowl wrote:
Tue Mar 07, 2023 10:31 pm
TOO wrote:
Tue Mar 07, 2023 9:40 pm
Wally_West wrote:
Tue Mar 07, 2023 9:16 pm
Damn, Warriors lose to OKC while letting them dropped 137 on them.


Idk, I just don’t believe in the warriors this year. I know many in media keep hyping them up as contenders this year, which I understand but I just don’t buy it. I just not afraid of them like I was last year. Could I see them in the WCF or even the finals? Sure but I feel like a lot has to right for them and a lot has to go wrong for other teams (us and the nuggets mainly).
The Dubs are scary at home, just awful on the road.
They’re pretenders without Wiggins and GP2.
What happened to Wiggins? I don't remember him getting injured.

Re: Around the League News: Week 21 (3/6 - 3/12)

Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2023 8:18 am
by Mori Chu
The only longshot hope for the Warriors this year is if they draw a really friendly path through the Western playoffs. They'd have to get something like: Sacramento in the 1st round, Memphis in the 2nd round, and Denver or us in the WCF. I don't think GSW would beat all of those teams, but the argument is that they'd beat the Kings, and the Grizz might be without Ja or distracted by his antics, and then maybe by the WCF they'd be back to full strength with guys like Wiggins and Payton II. I do not think that'll happen, but that's the idea. They are defending champs, so it makes sense to give them some default baseline of respect, but I don't see it happening this year for them.

Re: Around the League News: Week 21 (3/6 - 3/12)

Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2023 9:03 am
by wpmiller42
Not really an "Around the League" story, but I ran into Greg Oden once at the UNLV student rec center when I was a student there (I think he was there for Summer League) and he was super nice to me and some friends who were playing pick up. I thought this story on his current situation was worth the read:

https://www.theringer.com/nba/2023/3/8/ ... ohio-state

Re: Around the League News: Week 21 (3/6 - 3/12)

Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2023 10:57 am
by bajanguy008

Re: Around the League News: Week 21 (3/6 - 3/12)

Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2023 2:10 pm
by Flagrant Fowl
I’d bet Ja will be playing again in less than 2 weeks.


Re: Around the League News: Week 21 (3/6 - 3/12)

Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2023 2:46 pm
by ShelC
Depends on what the NBA finds. I don't know what might've been criminal for charges, but if the NBA finds he had the gun around the team, hotel, airplane he could get 50 games.

Re: Around the League News: Week 21 (3/6 - 3/12)

Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2023 3:36 pm
by ShelC

Re: Around the League News: Week 21 (3/6 - 3/12)

Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2023 3:40 pm
by Split T
We might be ahead of them in a week

Re: Around the League News: Week 21 (3/6 - 3/12)

Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2023 4:19 pm
by Wally_West
How bad do you guys think their fall in the standings will be?


I think they end up being the 4 or 5th seed and play the warriors in the 1st round, probably lose in 5.

Re: Around the League News: Week 21 (3/6 - 3/12)

Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2023 4:21 pm
by Flagrant Fowl
ShelC wrote:
Wed Mar 08, 2023 2:46 pm
Depends on what the NBA finds. I don't know what might've been criminal for charges, but if the NBA finds he had the gun around the team, hotel, airplane he could get 50 games.
Things are different in the Adam Silver era. The NBA already let the Grizzlies handle it internally, so I'm not expecting much, if any, additional penalty from the NBA. However, he hasn't been officially suspended by the league which means he hasn't missed any game checks yet. That's a bit strange, IMO.

Besides the Arenas situation, previous gun related suspensions have been in the range of 7 games. I think we'll see Ja miss a similar amount when it's all finished.

Re: Around the League News: Week 21 (3/6 - 3/12)

Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2023 4:39 pm
by Superbone
Flagrant Fowl wrote:
Wed Mar 08, 2023 4:21 pm
ShelC wrote:
Wed Mar 08, 2023 2:46 pm
Depends on what the NBA finds. I don't know what might've been criminal for charges, but if the NBA finds he had the gun around the team, hotel, airplane he could get 50 games.
Things are different in the Adam Silver era. The NBA already let the Grizzlies handle it internally, so I'm not expecting much, if any, additional penalty from the NBA. However, he hasn't been officially suspended by the league which means he hasn't missed any game checks yet. That's a bit strange, IMO.

Besides the Arenas situation, previous gun related suspensions have been in the range of 7 games. I think we'll see Ja miss a similar amount when it's all finished.
I can't shoot any holes in your logic...

Re: Around the League News: Week 21 (3/6 - 3/12)

Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2023 4:40 pm
by ShelC
Silver's NBA is definitely more concerned with optics and Ja's a star they may not want to really punish. They could've taken action earlier with his previous incidents and maybe that would've prevented what happened at the strip club.

Re: Around the League News: Week 21 (3/6 - 3/12)

Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2023 5:47 pm
by Flagrant Fowl
Takes one to know one, I guess.



Context is important. Pretty funny stuff, to be fair.


Re: Around the League News: Week 21 (3/6 - 3/12)

Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2023 5:51 pm
by Flagrant Fowl
You'd never guess, Luka Doncic is again wincing and limping in the first 2 minutes of the Mavs/Pels game right now.

Re: Around the League News: Week 21 (3/6 - 3/12)

Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2023 6:44 pm
by Superbone
Flagrant Fowl wrote:
Wed Mar 08, 2023 5:51 pm
You'd never guess, Luka Doncic is again wincing and limping in the first 2 minutes of the Mavs/Pels game right now.
I wish somebody would give him a good reason to wince. But taint for me to say.

Re: Around the League News: Week 21 (3/6 - 3/12)

Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2023 8:22 pm
by LazarusLong
Flagrant Fowl wrote:
Wed Mar 08, 2023 5:51 pm
You'd never guess, Luka Doncic is again wincing and limping in the first 2 minutes of the Mavs/Pels game right now.
He's a bit late for a last-minute entry in Sunday's Academy Awards ...

Re: Around the League News: Week 21 (3/6 - 3/12)

Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2023 8:37 pm
by Wally_West

Re: Around the League News: Week 21 (3/6 - 3/12)

Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2023 10:36 pm
by Mori Chu
Umm, wow.


Re: Around the League News: Week 21 (3/6 - 3/12)

Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2023 11:22 pm
by Superbone
Wally_West wrote:
Wed Mar 08, 2023 8:37 pm
Well, he got his 16th tech so he has to miss at least one game anyway.

Re: Around the League News: Week 21 (3/6 - 3/12)

Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2023 11:24 pm
by Flagrant Fowl
Superbone wrote:
Wed Mar 08, 2023 11:22 pm
Well, he got his 16th tech so he has to miss at least one game anyway.
He only has 15. The broadcast initially had it wrong because he had one rescinded.